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Frontispiece = 1 pic, The tragic death of King Albert of the
Belgians while rock climbing at Marche-les-Dames near Namur, with Queen Elisabeth

Pages

Our Notebook by GK Chesterton (weekly essay)

The new King of the Belgians (formerly Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant) and
Queen Astrid (formerly Princess Astrid of Sweden) and their children Prince
Badouin and Princess Josephine 5 x pics

The death of King Albert, feats as a rock climber and mountaineer
4x pics

The death of King Albert, The scenes of the climbing tragedy and relics found
5 x pics

The death of King Albert, his varied life and multifarious activities 6 x pics

The death of King Albert, tributes by war veterans and by powers 8 x pics

The death of King Albert, The lying-in-state in Brussels and a people in mourning 2 x pics

The death of King Albert, A last homecoming- by torchlight 2 x pics

The cradle of Civilization an appreciation of "Ur Excavations:
The Royal Cemetery" by Leornard Woolley 4 x pics

The oldest Harp in the world, music at Ur 5000 years ago 2 x pics colour

The Metal worker's art at Ur in the 4th Millenium BC 3 x pics
colour

14.3 Below Zero! - The severest cold New York has ever known ,
frozen Hudson river and skyline 2 x pics

The real Catherine the Great, a contemporary note as to her
appearance and personality, her court, and the death of Peter III 2 x pics

The film vogue for Royal romances: British and American successes
- "Catherine the Great" with Flora Robson , "Queen Christina"
with Greta Garbo, "The Scarlet Empress" with Marlene Deitrich, "Colonel
Blood with Frank Cellier " 8 x pics

The World's biggest shop window: The British Industries fair
held in London and Castle Bromwich, Birmingham 2 pages 6 x
pics include fashion and an exhibit of an interior showing a two hundred year
old loom from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides

Books of the Day and 2 x pics of a dramatic escape from a
man eating shark at Manley, near Sydney, Australia

The world of the Kinema - "Conversation Piece" the
new Noel Coward play

The camera as recorder: news by photography - The visit of Prince George to
South Africa - The avalanches in the Italian Marches - The first Nazi
storm troopers to land in England. They arrived in Croydon, with swastika armbands,
flying in from Berlin. They were the first storm troopers to land in England
in full uniform.- Winner of the Waterloo Cup, Bryn Truthful with his
owner Major Hugh Peel

A page for collectors - Porcelain through the ages - Dresden and Sevres
by Frank Davis